Trick tongue piercing device



March 21, 1961 a. c. CHOUINARD 2,976,039

TRICK TONGUE PIERCING DEVICE Filed Oct. 24, 1958 INVENTOR. K1511. fieanco C. CuoummRo BY @1224 A 5 ATTORNEY United States Patent TRICK TONGUE PIERCING DEVICE Gerald C. Chouinard, 4912 Biloxi Ave., North Hollywood, Calif.

Filed Oct. 24, 1958, Ser. No. 769,344

4 Claims. (Cl. 272-8) This invention relates to amusement or trick devices and particularly relates to a trick tongue piercing device. The invention is shown herein as particularly embodied in a trick pencil which is adapted to be applied to the tongue to give the illusion and amusing aspect that the tongue has been impaled or pierced through.

Various trick or amusement devices designed to be applied to a portion of the body to give the illusion that a member of the body has been empaled or pierced through are known. One such familiar device is an arrow divided into two segments which are so interconnected as to be placed about the chest or head or other member of the body of a person to give the-illusion and amusing aspect that the arrow has pierced and gone entirely through such member of the body.

However, no satisfactory device of the character disclosed herein as my invention is now known, due probably to the fact that there is much greater dilficulty in providing a device to be applied to the tongue to give the illusion that the tongue has been pierced through, without showing, at the usual close range of the observer, the means by which such illusion is attained.

It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide a trick tongue piercing device.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a trick pencil adapted to be applied to the tongue to give the illusion that the tongue has been impaled or pierced through.

It is a further object to provide a trick tongue piercing device including two pencil segments interconnected by a tongue clamp.

It is a further object to provide a trick tongue piercing device including two nail or spike segments interconnected by a tongue clamp.

It is a further object to provide in a trick tongue piercing device an improved tongue clamp adapted to surround the side of the tongue and to being concealed by the lips and inside the mouth of the user.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a tongue piercing device wherein the illusion that the tongue has been pierced may be made so complete as to stand the test of appearance at close quarters, and which may actually be felt and tested without being understood by a person examining the device.

These and other object of the invention will be apparent from the following description and the accompanying drawing in which- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a trick pencil in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a view showing the manner of employing the trick pencil illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of another embodiment, i.e. a spike in accordance with the invention; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view taken at a right angle to Fig. 3.

Referring now to the drawing and particularly to Fig. l, the numeral designates a trick pencil in accordance with the invention. As shown, the pencil 10 may include an upper pencil segment 11, provided with a rubber eraser 12 at its upper extremity; and a lower pencil segment 13 having a sharpened pencil point 14 at. its lower extremity. A wire tongue clamp 15 may be provided and may interconnect the upper pencil segment 11 and the lower pencil segment 13. One method of interconnecting the members 11 and 13 may be by inserting the bent portions 16 and 17 of the wire clamp 15 into the pencil bores of the segments 11 and 13 in the manner clearly illustrated in Fig. 1.

Tongue clamp 15 may preferably be formed of rela tively light guage spring wire and may be bent so as to allow the pencil 10 to be employed in the manner illustrated in Fig. 2. Tongue clamp 15 may include two spaced apart relatively parallel portions 18 and 19 and a circular portion 21 disposed acutely with respect to the longitudinally axis of the pencil 10.

Although it is contemplated that the trick pencil will generally be of wood to simulate the ordinary or conventional pencil, it may also be formed of any other suitable material such as metal to simulate an automatic pencil or ball-point pen and the like. Likewise, the device may be molded or otherwise formed so that the segments and the interconnecting tongue clamp are integral with one another.

Another embodiment of the invention involving a trick tongue piercing nail or spike is illustrated in Fig. 3. As shown, the spike 30 may include an upper spike segment 31 having a spike head 32 at its upper extremity and a lower spike segment having a sharpened spike point 3'4 at its lower extremity. A wire tongue clamp 35 may be provided and may interconnect the upper spike segment 31 and the lower spike segment 32 in the manner shown at 36 and 37.

Tongue clamp 35 may also be relatively light guage spring wire and may be bent so as to allow the spike to be employed in a manner similar to that illustrated in Fig. 2. Tongue clamp 35 may include two spaced apart relatively parallel portions 38 and 39 and a circular portion 41 disposed acutely with respect to the longitudinal axis of the spike 30.

When the device is employed as illustrated in Fig. 2, the tongue may be placed between the upper and lower segments 11 and 13 and between the wire members 18 and 19, while the circular portion 21 of the tongue clamp 15 may be fitted into the inside of the mouth between the teeth and cheek in the manner clearly shown. When so positioned the tongue clamp 15 and particularly the circular portion 21, being acutely bent or offset with respect to the longitudinal axis of the pencil segments, holds the piercing device in position so that it cannot be easily displaced. This firm positioning serves to prevent any detection of the tongue clamp, even when the impaled tongue is examined at close range or when an observer attempts to move the piercing device on the tongue.

From the foregoing it is apparent that the invention provides a trick piercing device which will accomplish all the objects hereinabove set forth.

While I have described the salient features of this in' vention in detail with respect to a limited number of embodiments, these embodiments are to be taken as preferred examples of the same, and it will of course be apparent that other modifications may be made within the spirit and scope of this invention, and I do not therefore desire to limit the invention to the exact details except insofar as they may be defined in the following claims.

I claim:

1. A trick tongue piercing device of the character described comprising an upper pencil segment having a blunt end, a lower pencil segment having a pointed end, and a tongue clamp for interconnecting in spaced-apart relationship said upper pencil segment and said lower pencil segment, said tongue clamp being a wire member 3 with tongue engaging portions extending normal to the longitudinal axes of said pencil segments and a circular portion disposed at an angle to said tongue engaging portions greater than 90 and less than l80.-

2. A trick tongue piercing device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said circular portion is disposed at an angle to said tongue engaging portions of between 135 and 150.

3. A trick tongue piercing device of the character described comprising an upper nail segment having a head, a lower nail segment having a pointed end, and a tongue clamp for interconnecting in spaced-apart relationship said upper nail segment and said lower nail segment, said Q tongue clamp being a wire member with tongue engaging portions extending normal to the longitudinal axes of said nail segments and a circular portion disposed at an angle to said tongue engaging portions greater than and less than 180.

4. A trick tongue piercing device in accordance with claim 3 wherein said circular portion of said tongue clamp is disposed at an angle to said tongue engaging portions of between and References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 714,534 Thomas Nov. 25, 1902 

